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"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
–Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
At the beginning of this month, Karen Boss challenged us to write a poem for kids, telling them something important for them to know.
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She wanted to put good vibes for kids into the world.
Did we succeed?
The jury's still out . . .
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Thank you to everyone who contributed a poem or followed along, and thanks especially to Karen Boss for opening our hearts and exercising our creativity.
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Scroll through the poems below, or, for best viewing, CLICK HERE.
Inspired to write your own second person poem giving advice to kids?
Add it to our June 2019 padlet by Sunday, June 30, 2019, and I will move your poem to the wrap-up presentation.
Alternatively, you may enter the giveaway by commenting below. Comments must be received by Tuesday, June 2nd. If you contribute a poem and comment below you will receive two entries in total.
The winner will be determined by Random.org and announced next Friday, June 5th when we reveal our next DMC challenge and debut reader spotlight!
Michelle, your ditty challenge designed by Karen Boss is a wonderful success. There are so many inspirational poems that this is a poetry collection of merit for young children and parents to read together over the summer months. Thank you for offering this challenge and letting me write a poem to my little granddaughter that I hope will be read to her many times until she can read it on her own.
ReplyDeleteLove all the pics and art here Michelle, especially the deliberating jury at the top. I enjoyed the rainbow of responses for this challenge and all the different places it traveled–thanks for all your efforts in the making of it! And oh, a new challenge coming…
ReplyDeleteThanks, Karen and Michelle, for this collection! I can't wait to share with my school kids next year
ReplyDeleteLots of great advice here for kids AND adults! (Cindy, I am *still* learning to like the salad bar.) Thank you so much, Michelle and Karen!
ReplyDeleteA fun month of poem making here. I love seeing all the different ways that the prompt took writers. Good advice in lots of ways. Thanks for hosting the challenge. It was fun!
ReplyDeleteAs always, thanks for hosting the challenge, Michelle, and thank you to Karen Boss for coming up with this month's idea. I've enjoyed reading through the collection, and I enjoyed taking up the challenge for myself.
ReplyDeleteThank you Michelle and Karen (both "partners" in this wonderful new Lee Bennett Hopkins' anthology) for this interview, background and challenge. It was simply perfect for me and I have loved the other poets' ideas and advice to kids. I will be sharing these poems with the kids when I substitute teach and hope my own two little grand-ones will appreciate my poem when they are older. Delightful times on Today's Little Ditty always and I am trying my utmost to participate more frequently!!! Janet Clare F.
ReplyDeleteSo many interesting and different responses to this challenge! Thanks to you, Michelle, and to Karen for inspiring us!
ReplyDeleteI like that simple but true haiku that Mary Lee offered. I was just wishing that I could identify birds. Advice is tough to give (and harder to take!). Thanks for pushing us this month.
ReplyDeleteIt's been fun reading these poems in my inbox all month. I can't wait to read the book. <3
ReplyDeleteMichelle and Karen, thanks for the challenge! I agree that this would make a fabulous book! It's such a great prompt. I wonder what advice my students would give to adults?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be interesting! If you ask them next year, let me know what they say — in poetry or otherwise. :)
DeleteI enjoyed reading all these poems here. I agree with Jesse. They are filled with advice for all ages!
ReplyDeleteI have worked on two different poems this month that might have worked for this challenge, but June is the cruelest month for teachers, and I was never satisfied enough to share either. I'm still looking forward to whatever the next challenge will be.
Ah, June...I remember it well, Cheriee. Thanks for your work with kids and please share your poems in the future.
DeleteAh, sometimes that happens, Cheriee— the month just flies by! I'm glad it got you thinking, though. A poem will probably bubble to the surface in the middle of the night sometime next week. :)
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ReplyDeleteA wonderful group of advice poetry for kids! Thanks for sharing! I especially like the one by Mary Lee Hahn that encourages a love of place. For Poetry Friday, I did not write a poem but wrote of a poet who also gave some advice earlier this week, as spoken word poetry! Thanks! Carol from The Apples in My Orchard!
ReplyDeleteThis collection of poetry could make the world a better place. Thanks for offering and hosting this challenge. Each poem has been a delight!
ReplyDeleteThank you Michelle and Karen for a delightful challenge. So many wonderful poems to inspire children and all writers! We are in such need of hope and encouragement, and what better than poetry!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle & Karen for this great challenge. I posted my poems on facebook and received many likes and loves. Congrats to all participants for their wonderful poems. The anthology looks fantastic...I would have loved to be a part of it. Maybe the next one! Poetry rocks!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your poems got some love on FB, Dianne! I just went in search and found one of them. If you tag me next time, I won't be late to the party. ;)
DeleteOh, and I really like your poem, Michelle. Thanks for all the support you give to poets and poetry.
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